Nutritional factors in a mouse model of Rett syndrome

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 586-592

  Nag, Nupur ^a   Ward, Bonnie ^a   Berger Sweeney, Joanne E ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Behavior; Choline; Cholinergic system; Environmental enrichment; Nutrition; Rett syndrome

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; DNA; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2;

BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MEMORY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RETT SYNDROME; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHOLINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; GENES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICE; MUTATION; NEURONS; NUTRITION PROCESSES; RETT SYNDROME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 61849096110     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.03.007     Document Type: Review

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